"Pain. Lately I've become very well acquainted with it. The slow and steady aching pain, the type that comes when you've been hurt repeatedly by the same person. You finally breathe, thinking that yesterday's problem will stay in the past when, in fact, it's today's problem, tomorrow's problem and the problem of everyday after that. Only in those rare moments when he pulls me closer and makes promises he never seems able to keep does the pain disappear."

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